Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels:
--We’re So Famous, (the first and worst review + actor Malcolm McDowell's hilarious reaction to review + praise for + original American cover + British cover + galley cover for 15th anniversary reissue)
--Vernon Downs, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + alternate trailer + original cover),
--World Gone Water, (praise for + book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + original cover)
--Garden Lakes, (praise for + book trailer narrated by the author + original cover)
and the memoirs:
-- Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for) published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series
--Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle, which is the basis for his microcast, Typical (Anthony Michael Hall promo), available on Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and elsewhere.
His Charlie Martens trilogy–Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes–is published in an omnibus by Roundabout Press to celebrate the story collection Minor Characters, (ToC), featuring original stories about the minor characters in the trilogy by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday. The collection features a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg.
Clarke is also the editor of The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton), (ToC) and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton).His apprentice work is collected as The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block, and his unpublished novel is called Scavengers.
Under the pseudonym J.D. West, he is the author of the Golden Age detective novel, The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery. (Harold Ober with his wife and Scottie Fitzgerald)
He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston. (Newtonville Books’s 20th anniversary video) (Anniversary video by Mona Awad and Kenneth Calhoun) (Newtonville Books video: “Where do you hold your events?”)
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “A House Divided.” Short Story. Typed. Pgs 1-6.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Arizona State University
Phoenix College
Phoenix, AZ
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-42. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
College Writing
Manuscript – “St. Janice.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8.
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
College Writing
Persona Magazine
University of Arizona
Correspondence – Persona co-fiction editor Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Johnson, Denis
Manuscript – “Waiting for Christie.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11.
College Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Manuscript – “Urbana.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-18. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Table of Contents for Persona Magazine, fiction edited by JDC and Lavinia Spalding
Persona Magazine
Spalding, Lavinia
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “A Complete Gentleman.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-34. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Manuscript – “Pleasure Island.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-20. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
College Writing
Manuscript – “Shane of Lubbock.” Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16.
College Writing
University of Arizona
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis incl bio info; “Interview with Bret Easton Ellis,” by Mark Amerika and Alexander Laurence; New York Times Book Review review of The Informers written by George Stade; November/December 1994 U Magazine interview with BEE titled “Days of Whining Poseurs,” by Joshua Mann.
Ellis, Bret Easton
University of Arizona
JDC application to the Bennington College Low-Residency MFA program dated October 11, 1994
Bennington College
Rector, Liam
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
University of Arizona
Ellis, Bret Easton
May-June: 4236 N. 103rd Ave., #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
July-Aug: Kaibab-Huachuca Dorm, Tucson, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
Fall: 4236 N. 103rd Ave, #7, Phoenix, AZ
O the Places I've Lived!
University of Arizona Transcript - 1993-1994; including transcript for Estrella Mountain Community College
University of Arizona
Misc re: Bret Easton Ellis including June 1995 Details Magazine profile of Val Kilmer by BEE; May 1995 copy of Manhattan File featuring Glamorama excerpt by BEE; Hotwired interview with BEE; photo of BEE with Candace Bushnell from At Random.
Ellis, Bret Easton
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
Harold Ober Associates
Apprentice Writing
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – Essay – “Building a Better Character (In 90 Days or Less).” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – January 1995 workshop – “Urbana.” Annotated by Reginald McKnight. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
McKnight, Reginald
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
Bennington College
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Don DeLillo’s White Noise.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – June Workshop – “Pleasure Island.” Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Ethan Canin’s Star Food.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Center by Amy Hempel.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Pugilist at Rest by Thom Jones.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Anton Chekhov’s The Shooting Party.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “David Foster Wallace’s Girl With Curious Hair.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes From Underground.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Madison Smartt Bell.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “A Stranger in this World, stories by Kevin Canty.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “U&I by Nicholson Baker.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Urbana” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – ‘Shane of Lubbock” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-16. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk; includes alternate version, typed, pgs 1-3.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Pleasure Island” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “World Gone Water” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-21. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Airships by Barry Hannah.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “The Vegetable King” – Novel excerpt. Typed, pgs 1-44. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “We’re So Famous” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-8. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
We're So Famous: A Novel
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “Pricksongs and Descants by Robert Coover.”
Bennington College
JDC Annotation – Bennington – “The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.”
Bennington College
Manuscript – Bennington – “Last” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-2. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Unsaid” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-7. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “Anerotic” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-5. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “From Our New York Office” – Short story. Typed, one page.
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
Manuscript – Bennington – “LoveStory” – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-19. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk. (Collected in The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories by JDC.)
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Manuscript – Bennington – “Monthly Payments’ – Short story. Typed, pgs 1-11. Annotated by Askold Melnyczuk.
Melnyczuk, Askold
Bennington College
Apprentice Writing
O the Places I've Lived!
Correspondence – Charles Bock
Bock, Charles
Bennington College
Correspondence – Amy Hempel
Hempel, Amy
Bennington College
Chelsea Magazine
Pushcart Prize
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – Douglas Bauer
Bauer, Douglas
Bennington College
Correspondence – Fiona McCrae at Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press
Bennington College
Correspondence – Bret Easton Ellis
Ellis, Bret Easton
Bennington College
Letter from Chelsea Magazine enclosing payment for publication of “A Complete Gentleman” in Chelsea #59; incl color copy of check.
Chelsea Magazine
College Writing
Literary Journey
World Gone Water: A Novel
Bennington College
Bergin, Josephine
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Garden Lakes screenplay
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Bergin, Josephine
World Gone Water: A Novel
Manuscript – World Gone Water screenplay
World Gone Water: A Novel
Correspondence – Minor Characters, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Minor Characters: Stories
Center for Fiction
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Boston Book Festival Program Guide. October 19-20, 2019. (+)
Boston Book Festival
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Hempel, Amy
Newtonville Books
Newtonville Books
Manuscript – Minor Characters, first draft
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Radio play adaptation of The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
The Disappearance of Swenson's Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery
Correspondence – Stephanie Duncan leaving Bloomsbury and moving Minor Characters to another publisher
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters re move from Bloomsbury to Roundabout Press
Minor Characters: Stories
JDC contract dated June 17 with Roundabout Press for Minor Characters
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters – Contracts
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Correspondence – Minor Characters – General correspondence
Minor Characters: Stories
Manuscript – Roundabout Press omnibus including Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes – Loose galleys
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Manuscript – Minor Characters – Loose galleys
Minor Characters: Stories
Roundabout Press contracts with contributors for Minor Characters; incl Roundabout license with Bloomsbury to reprint Vernon Downs, World Gone Water, and Garden Lakes in omnibus.
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters covers for galley and finished book + correspondence with contributors seeking approval for asterisk cover idea
Minor Characters: Stories
Publishers Marketplace announcement of Minor Characters deal with Roundabout Press, a collection based on minor characters from JDC novels, featuring original stories by Mona Awad, Christopher Boucher, Kenneth Calhoun, Nina de Gramont, Ben Greenman, Annie Hartnett, Owen King, Neil LaBute, J. Robert Lennon, Lauren Mechling, Shelly Oria, Stacey Richter, Joseph Salvatore, Andrea Seigel, and Daniel Torday, with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem, and an introduction by Laura van den Berg.
Awad, Mona
Boucher, Christopher
Calhoun, Kenneth
de Gramont, Nina
Greenman, Ben
Hartnett, Annie
King, Owen
LaBute, Neil
Lennon, J. Robert
Oria, Shelly
Richter, Stacey
Salvatore, Joseph
Seigel, Andrea
Torday, Daniel
Lethem, Jonathan
van den Berg, Laura
Mechling, Lauren
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “This holiday season, retailers are thinking inside the box” incl mention of Newtonville Books Holiday Care Package program created by Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Newton Tab article entitled “Newton Neighbors Helping Neighbors group grows over 3600 members” incl mention of Newtonville Books gift bag program created by Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Literary Hub newsletter featuring “A Way to Beat Mortality” by Shelly Oria from Minor Characters + copy of story published by The Literary Hub
Literary Hub
Oria, Shelly
Minor Characters: Stories
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Boston Globe article entitled “These thoughtful, last-minute gifts arrive in an instant, no mailing required” re shopping at Bookshop.org
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Vernon Downs: A Novel
World Gone Water: A Novel
Garden Lakes: A Novel
Roundabout Press galley letter for Minor Characters
Minor Characters: Stories
Ad campaign on Literary Hub for Minor Characters galley promotion
Hausler, Pete
Literary Hub
Minor Characters: Stories
Perrotta, Tom
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Brooklyn Book Festival
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “Umass grad’s site is helping independent bookstores hold their own against Amazon” re Bookshop.org, featuring quote from Mary Cotton
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Minor Characters: Stories
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article entitled “How Mary Cotton found love and a career at Newtonville Books”
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Minor Characters: Stories
“The Chronicler of Obsession: Jaime Clarke’s Minor Characters“ by Laura van den Berg – The Brooklyn Rail
Brooklyn Rail
van den Berg, Laura
Minor Characters: Stories
Lethem, Jonathan
Literary Hub
Minor Characters: Stories
Boston Globe article re Newtonville Books hosting Boston Globe Book Club featuring Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein
Cotton, Mary
Goldstein, Meredith
Newtonville Books
Cooper, Chris
Birch, Thora
Minor Characters: Stories
Gift agreement with John J. Burns library at Boston College for Post Road Archives
Post Road Magazine
Shelf Awareness newsletter featuring quote from Mary Cotton “The Indie Bookstore as a Very Optimistic Space.”
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Hausler, Pete
Scavengers: A Novel
Hausler, Pete
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
The Last Lemonade Stand on the Block: Stories
Publishers Weekly
McDowell, Malcolm
We're So Famous: A Novel
Publishers Weekly
We're So Famous: A Novel
Literary Hub
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Roundabout Press galley letter for Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle by Jaime Clarke/What Was the Question Again? by Charlie Martens
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Boston Globe article entitled “We’re All in This Together: After weathering pandemic, Newtonville Books signs a new 10-year lease.”
Cotton Mary
Newtonville Books
Hall, Anthony Michael
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
Jaime Clarke is a graduate of the University of Arizona and holds an MFA from Bennington College. He is the author of the novels We’re So Famous, (praise for), Vernon Downs, (book trailer narrated by Academy Award-winning actor Chris Cooper + praise for), World Gone Water, (book trailer narrated by Thora Birch + praise for), and Garden Lakes, (book trailer narrated by the author + praise for), and the memoir Poor Man’s Gatsby (praise for), published as Bookmarked: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, in IG Publishing’s Bookmarked series; editor of the story collection Minor Characters, (sneak peek), and The Last Novel Ever Published, as well as the anthologies Don’t You Forget About Me: Contemporary Writers on the Films of John Hughes, Conversations with Jonathan Lethem, and Talk Show: On the Couch with Contemporary Writers; and co-editor of the anthologies No Near Exit: Writers Select Their Favorite Work from Post Road Magazine (with Mary Cotton), and Boston Noir 2: The Classics (with Dennis Lehane and Mary Cotton). Under the pseudonym J.D. West, he is the author of the Golden Age detective novel The Disappearance of Swenson’s Secretary: A Harold Ober Mystery. He is a founding editor of the literary magazine Post Road, now published at Boston College, and co-owner, with his wife, of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston.
Awad, Mona
Boucher, Christopher
Calhoun, Kenneth
de Gramont, Nina
Greenman, Ben
Hartnett, Annie
King, Owen
LaBute, Neil
Lennon, J. Robert
Mechling, Lauren
Oria, Shelly
Richter, Stacey
Salvatore, Joseph
Seigel, Andrea
Torday, Daniel
Lethem, Jonathan
van den Berg, Laura
Minor Characters: Stories
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Cotton, Mary
Newtonville Books
Typical of the Times: Growing Up in the Culture of Spectacle: A Memoir
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